The Next Mountain Podcast Investing in Regeneration: Cordell Jacks on Trust Based Capital and Reimagining Business
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Jan 15, 2026 Cordell Jacks, CEO and General Partner at Regenerative Capital Group and serial social entrepreneur, reframes business as relational and life-giving. He discusses regeneration as a paradigm shift, trust-based investing, stewarding SME transitions, inner development for leaders, and practical steps to move from extractive models to long-term, community-rooted approaches.
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Regeneration As A New Paradigm
- Regeneration is a paradigm of aligning individuals, organizations, and place rather than an add-on to business practices.
- The focus shifts from solving isolated problems to nourishing mutual flourishing and long-term vitality.
Zeitgeist And The Silver Tsunami
- Regeneration is not CSR, ESG, or B Corp; it requires a different mindset to change systemic outcomes.
- The retiring cohort of SME owners offers a unique inflection to scale regenerative change across the core economy.
Develop Leaders Before Scaling
- Do invest in inner development for acquisition CEOs to unlearn extractive business assumptions before scaling companies.
- Apply living-systems principles in leadership to infect stakeholder ecosystems with regenerative mindsets.